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Quotes About Delight

His weakness was the only time when I could taste the delight of paying wrong for wrong.
~ Emily Bronte
He took a seat opposite Catherine, who kept her gaze fixed on him as if she feared he would vanish were she to remove it. He did not raise his to her, often; a quick glance now and then sufficed; but it flashed back, each time more confidently, the undisguised delight he drank from hers.
~ Emily Bronte
My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees—my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath—a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
~ Emily Bronte
My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees - my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath - a source of little visible delight, but necessary.?
~ Emily Brontë'
Inebriate of Air — am I — And Debauchee of Dew — Reeling — thro endless summer days — From Inns of Molten Blue —
~ Emily Dickinson
Part Three: Love V DOUBT me, my dim companion! Why, God would be content With but a fraction of the love Poured thee without a stint. The whole of me, forever, 5 What more the woman can,— Say quick, that I may dower thee With last delight I own! It cannot be my spirit, For that was thine before; 10 I ceded all of dust I knew,— What opulence the more Had I, a humble maiden, Whose farthest of degree Was that she might 15 Some distant heaven, Dwell timidly with thee!
~ Emily Dickinson
People who like surprises want you to like surprises, too.
~ Emily Giffin
A mí en cambio, cuando algo me gusta, me gusta siempre; como me pasa con las chocolatinas, que nunca me canso de comerlas
~ Emma Donoghue
The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.
~ Emma Goldman
Frannie was watching some elves growing toadstools. As fast as the toadstool grew, an elf laid a cloth on it and put glasses of lemonade and tiny cakes there. It was all like a strange dream. 'Oh, I am glad we came!' said Beth, in delight. 'Who would have thought that the Enchanted Wood would be like this at night?' They
~ Enid Blyton
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE MARTIN GIVES ELIZABETH A SURPRISE
~ Enid Blyton
No, she's marvellous,' said Lucy-Ann, and Tassie glowed with pleasure.
~ Enid Blyton
The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us. A sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.
~ Amos Oz
Although I won't pretend our paths are likely to cross, I hope you know that I will be delighted if they do.
~ Amy Bloom
he felt about a meal in a restaurant the way people feel about money and good health: always better to have it.
~ Amy Bloom
if you're innovating, you need to find and delight a small early market before you target that larger segment.
~ Amy Jo Kim
It's dark, spooky, and I LOVE it!
~ Amy Lee
The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
~ Andre Gide
Rideva volentieri, in un modo meravigliosamente terreno, luminoso.
~ Andrea De Carlo
I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.
~ Colin Firth
I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.
~ Patrick Macnee
Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.
~ Helen Dunmore